Attrition?

[Kazmir]

Is anyone else having absolutely no problems with attrition on enemy territory? Granted, I have only played in early eras of the game, but it certainly feels very odd that I can amass thousands of troops on an enemy province without a risk of taking unwanted casualties outside of battles.

Attrition was one of the safeguards against larger empires for small realms in earlier Paradox games, especially in the old CK and also a big strategic feature. Now it seems the only way to defend yourself is to raise a larger army than your enemy.

Or is it just me finding this a bit unfortunate? It's still a great game but I really can't see the reason for those high supply limits.

 

[Maukka]

Once you reach areas near Jerusalem you really can't field more than a few thousand guys on enemy territory.

 

[Rambo]

Is anyone else having absolutely no problems with attrition on enemy territory? Granted, I have only played in early eras of the game, but it certainly feels very odd that I can amass thousands of troops on an enemy province without a risk of taking unwanted casualties outside of battles.

Attrition was one of the safeguards against larger empires for small realms in earlier Paradox games, especially in the old CK and also a big strategic feature. Now it seems the only way to defend yourself is to raise a larger army than your enemy.

Or is it just me finding this a bit unfortunate? It's still a great game but I really can't see the reason for those high supply limits.

I thought that also till I saw a crusade for Antioch. And there were about 30,000 crusaders in one province that literally got decimated by attrition. Once you get later game, or to more advanced provinces that have large armies, you will see them take huge losses from attrition.

 

[unmerged(79540)]

Also, you shouldn't underestimate the power of siege events. In the long run (and sieges will take a long time one or two centuries into the game) they grind your troops down.

Actually, I think sieging becomes too hard in late game. It takes years and requires enormous amount of troops (it takes a lot to siege a castle with 5k soldiers inside).